How Often Do You Change Your Bedding ? (Sheets & Pillow Cases)them

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Lon

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I know it's not necessary but I seem to have a better nights sleep on fresh sheets and cases so I change every four days. When I was married I don't remember how often my wife changed them. When I was a kid my mother always washed and starched the sheets and pillow cases once a week.
 

Lon said:
I know it's not necessary but I seem to have a better nights sleep on fresh sheets and cases so I change every four days. When I was married I don't remember how often my wife changed them. When I was a kid my mother always washed and starched the sheets and pillow cases once a week.
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In winter my mother used to send the sheets to the laundry - they would come back wrapped in blue paper and tied with a string. So beautifully white and crisp! Due to the cost involved she would put the top sheet to the bottom once a week, and put the fresh one on top. I still love nice clean cotton sheets - I think once a week is reasonable for the change, but for lower thread count or synthetic, they may need to be changed more often.
 
I try to do it once a week like my mother did, but she used to iron all the sheets herself...don't remember fitted sheets back in those days.
 
There's nothing like the smell of fresh crisp sheets that have been dried in the sun on a clothesline. ... Once upon a time my mother laundered all the bedding weekly in her ringer washer and even ironed the sheets, and everything else, including underwear.

Do you think the frequency of changing sheets may depend on if one bathed before bed or not?
 
Twice a week if I have time-at least once a week otherwise. If I were wealthy and had a maid to do it (and all the laundry) I would have clean sheets nightly :)
 
Cookie said:
There's nothing like the smell of fresh crisp sheets that have been dried in the sun on a clothesline. ... Once upon a time my mother laundered all the bedding weekly in her ringer washer and even ironed the sheets, and everything else, including underwear.

Do you think the frequency of changing sheets may depend on if one bathed before bed or not?
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Also depends on how much skin you shed. We are like snakes you know, and you would be amazed at how much we leave on bedding.
 
Oh,and my mom was a sheet ironer also. And PJs etc. And did this for two homes as we had our summer cabin where we spent all weekends year `round. Towels were the only thing that didn`t get ironed. All this and 5 kids and she worked fulltime.
 
Lon said:
Also depends on how much skin you shed. We are like snakes you know, and you would be amazed at how much we leave on bedding.
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Ewwww.....:eewwk: Also, what about all the tossing and turning? Some people don't move around in bed and wake up in the same position they started in. As a kid I used to often end up on the other end of the bed. Go figure!
 
Cookie said:
There's nothing like the smell of fresh crisp sheets that have been dried in the sun on a clothesline. ... Once upon a time my mother laundered all the bedding weekly in her ringer washer and even ironed the sheets, and everything else, including underwear.

Do you think the frequency of changing sheets may depend on if one bathed before bed or not?
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(bolded) So true!! :D

I change them once a week, +/-
 
I iron my sheets, pillow cases and duvet cover; I don't like fitted sheets, and I change mine once every two weeks.
i always dry them outside too.
 
Once a week I take the sheets off and give them to my neighbours, they in turn give theirs to the 3rd neighbour along and they to the 4th , and so on all down the road..with 52 homes in the road it takes a year to get mine back and so I only have to wash sheets once a year before putting them back on the beds...and for the rest of the year I get to use everyone else's pretty pastel colours and no washing.. :D:eek:k:
 
Now, once a week. In the summer twice a week. Like Vivjen said, when possible love to hang them outside where they catch the sun and lovely breeze. Will bring them right in and put on the bed. Hmmmmm, makes the entire room smell as if I am outdoors. Just lovely.................
 
My sheets never go in the dryer,I prefer to hang those out in the sun and breeze to dry.
Nothing like getting into bed with fresh air dried sheets.
 
Lon said:
Also depends on how much skin you shed. We are like snakes you know, and you would be amazed at how much we leave on bedding.
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OMG maybe I will do it daily in future then! "Two people" sheets probably should be changed more often than single peoples!
 

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